This week, Dean discusses why coaches should stop challenging pass interference, the importance of those yellow flags, and a play we haven’t seen in 5 years.

into it. NFL another Thursday night tweet. This is becoming a little bit of a trend here. We started with Tom Brady, Kurt Warner, little lesser known person this Thursday night. But we have another tweet, Travis. What was the tweet? Charles Robinson, senior NFL writer for Yahoo said, NFL officials have gone rogue. This wasn't called on the field and then wasn't changed after it was flagged by the Giants.

So they ruled twice that this wasn't defensive passing affairs, which is just blatantly wrong and a purposeful refusal of sorry, purpose will refusal to change the call all right, so we're talking about this was Thursday night football, and a lot of people were fired up about this. What are we talking about. We're talking about pasting inference routes. Obviously, so and and so the tweet was in reference to that, and I wouldn't go, Look, I know people are fired up.

There was a call or a non call in the game. The Giants had the ball late. Uh, they were down by down still by fourteen I think at that point, and and there was a past to golden tate that was ruled incomplete. There was no flags on the field and and Pat Shermer challenge that it was past inference and the call in the field stood. Look it it was past an inference. It was it was llegal contact.

First the defender, Jonathan Jones initiated contact beyond five and uh and Daniel Jones, the quarterback was still in the pocket with the football and then the balls in the air. There's contact. It It did, It did affect materially restrict takes ability to make a play on the ball. And it and it was pass inference, but it wasn't overturned, it wasn't created and replaying. I think this is part of the frustration that people are now voicing with this rule because if it is a foul, then why is

replaying not changing it? And what we've seen and and we have not had a reversal in pass inference review since week three. Okay, so so we just we just completed what week six or we're we're finishing up week six. The bottom line is is the standard to overturn a past inference review is even higher than it is in other reviews. So we had several plays in the Houston, Kansas City. That's right, Houston Kansas City games. You plays

in a row. All three involved Travis Kelsey. Two we're back to back where the first was no call on on Kelsey and it looked like there was some contact, may have been a pick and and Houston Bill O'Brien challenged that it was past inference and the call stood no, no foul created and replay. The next play, Kelsey was flagged for offensive past reference that looked like less of a foul than the one that wasn't called and uh,

and there was no challenge on that. And then a little bit later in the second quarter, we had a we had a flag for d p I on an interception Pat Mahomestore was an interception. Kelsey gets mugged. There's a flag, and after discussion, the officials pick up the flag and they say, because the ball was in the air to another receiver, the contact on Kelsey was not

pasting inference. And I agree with that statement that if the ball is in the air somewhere else and and this is not the intended receiver, and there is contact that would potentially be passed in France, it's not a foul because it doesn't prevent that player's ability to make a play in the ball. I still think it was close. I want to see the coaches copy. I still think it was real close to that contact happening with the ball still in Mahomes's hand, and if that was the case,

it would be a defensive holding. But we're having all of these these conversations about this rule. Carolina Tampa, the London game, blatant push off early in the game on a on a Carolina reception Tampa and and and Bruce arians has won a couple of challenges early in the

game early in the season, he didn't challenge. So I think what we're seeing is this standard is very high and the coaches are saying, unless it is something critical, a critical situation, we've done to the point where if it's not that play from the NFC Championship last year, we're not We're not going to change it. And so it has to be even above and beyond, because look the standard and replaced clear and obvious. It has to be clear and obvious that the call in the field

is incorrect to change it. And that apply to anything that's reviewable, catch, no catch, fumbled down by contact or pass inference. But when you break it down and you look at the number of reviews and the percentage of reversals there there have been and these are unofficial numbers through through weeks six so far, a hundred and fifty

seven replay reviews, fifty six reversals. If you if you now divide that into non p I reviews and p I reviews, okay, non p I reviews, A hundred and thirteen total, forty reverse that's forty three percent in terms of calls that are reversed. Darkly, that's more or less typically, you know, as as technology has gotten better, you know, before high definition it was less than thirty percent. High death comes in with all the camera angles that we have.

Now we've been last couple of years, we've been between actually percent even higher in some instances. So that's right in that range. But when you take just pass an affair interviews, forty four reviews, seven reversal, sixteen percent reversed,

so you've got really two different standards. You've got a clear and obvious standard that applies to catch, no catch, bumble down by rule, uh, down by contact, scoring plays and all that, and then you have a clear and obvious you have a really clear and obvious, I mean very clear, she likes you likes you standard in past a deference review. So all that said, and and and there was a play and look, we we saw a play in the in the Arizona Atlanta play that didn't

involve past aferancee Christian Kirk. Did he fumble ruling on the field was down by contact, the ball came loose, Atlanta recovered in the in their own end zone. Atlanta challenge that it was a fumble. It was really close and it looked like his butt could have been down. Was the arm down? And they let that stand. That's

a clear and obvious standard. Um. But again we're seeing a little bit of a different standard, even higher bar when it comes to passive And so I throw it throward to you guys, I mean our friends at the Detroit Lions podcast. You know they tweeted something at us. What what are the fans thinking about this rule? You guys are fans, you watch games. What what do you think? I'll say, here's what the here's what the guys in

the Detroit Lions podcast said. Thanks for listening. I know they're big fans of Here's you're big fans of theirs. They're completely rewriting the p I rules in Minnesota at Dean Blandino needs some good calls on your show this week. We got tweet that, but that's not we are seeing that look and and fans. Fans are emotional. We see that the games sometimes from from a certain perspective and rose colored lenses sometimes as it pertains to our team.

But this is this is widespread that there is frustration with this rule. So so what what do you It's gotta change. It's gotta change. It's if clear and obvious is the standard. It needs to be that way across the board, because what it seems like is we're only gonna overturn a p I call if it's egregious, right, if it's just Ram saying, so, if it's only gonna be put into play in you know, Championship playoff, NFC

playoff game, don't even have it. So either do it and let the players adapt to clear and obvious, or don't do it at all because it's it's it's out of control. And I mean the Giants game was to me was was it was ridiculous. That was an obvious p I. Well, and the one that I that sticks out most to me is is the one in the London game on Sunday morning with Caroline and Tampa and a and a guy who has been successful you mentioned be a Bruce arians has challenge and one one these

p I challenges he didn't even touch it. He didn't want to touch it. It's early in the game because he's going to risk losing a time out and a challenge. So so it's like, if it's not one of those plays like that, they're not gonna they're not gonna touch it. And and we've seen, you know, through at least up until this point in week six, we've seen I think only five past inferience reviews. So that's down compared to

previous weeks. And yeah, and I would imagine, look, you're gonna save it's it's only gonna be that situation where we just have to challenge because this is so critical to the outcome of the game and beyond. And I'm saying this partially tongue in cheek, but I don't even know if the Saints rams play gets overturned right now, you know, because you, like you said, And here's the thing with replay, and this is why when you get

into this subjective world, replay doesn't always work. When you talk about objective fact, the ball touching the ground, the knee touching the ground. It's I can say, look, it's clear and obvious the ball touched the ground. And and if the ball is on the ground, you guys can't argue with me. But if I say look, unless you're Cowboys fans, well then yeah, they they'll argue, well they want and look, I love you guys, love Cowboy fans.

Keep listening to the show. But anyway, so but the thing is, now we say, oh my god, look there's contact. It's clear and obvious he contacted the receiver. But now what the league is saying, Yes, he did contact the receiver, but it wasn't clear and obvious that he significantly hindered his ability to make a play on the ball. That has now become the argument. And it's such a it's such a subjective call, and it's such a like a nebulous that's a S A T word right there. It's

you know, it's such a nebulous thing. Where where I can sit there and I can argue with you all day. Yeah, he contacted him, but it didn't affect his ability to make a play on the ball versus No, there's the ball on the ground. You can see it right exactly. And that's why replay is for objective facts. And when you enter this subjective world, replay doesn't always work. It's like a square peg in a round hole. I think you called it last week with the one and done

desion the RJ Barrett. You know this is I I'm hard pressed to to think that the league is happy with the results so far, with with obviously with all the negativity, and there's always negativity about officiating. Look, when I was there, no nobody's perfect. When I was there, they were saying the officiating was horrible. So again, nobody's perfect.

It's a hard game to officiate. But the thing is, I don't think the league could be very happy with the results so far, and so I would be hard pressed to imagine that this rule as is goes beyond this year. Now. Now, they could tweak it, they could change it a little bit. That's why you put it in for one year because you don't have to You don't have to in essence, vote it out. You don't have to have twenty four votes to get it out. You just but they have to revote to bring it

back if exactly so. So to bring it back as is, you need twenty four clubs. To say exactly, you need twenty four clubs. And that's when we get into that process, that competition can be process that out the unintended consequences prior to the vote. Look at the video, have those conversations, have it all worked out. Then you go into the vote, have all the clubs on the same page, and then

everybody can make an informed decision. And I don't know. Look, I wasn't involved in in in the in the process this year, obviously, but I don't know if that was the case with you know, with how it all went down. So that is our our past and inference segment of the week, and I would imagine we're gonna be talking about this the rest of the way. Let's uh, let's go to a break and we come back. We're gonna talk about the upset of the week. Travis is crying.

I'm not crying. Crying yet I watched football differently then I'm not crying. You're crying. We'll be back on good calls. We're back on good calls. And you obviously can't see us, but I I are did such a good job with the with our theme music, like every we are all every time it comes on, I'm like Bob in my head dancing tweets Texas if you guys are dancing every time you hear and you start dancing as well, a

little plan dancing? Can we talk about plan dancing? Can we get the plan dancing is a is a concept that it's white people and we are we are white people, the three of us here. White people love choreographed planned dances. When you give us the instructions. When you say white though, you mean like when I say it in this context, like someone who's not a great dancer normally correct, So so travel not a lot of talking. I want to

dance contest in my lifetime. Well, hold on, it was fifth grade, so that you know, like early nineties casper y. I thought the first time I thought he was deaf. But it's okay. So but when you give us instructions, so so examples, right, we're talking about what are we talking about the macarena? When you give us, what are some other plans? Shuffle the electric slide. When you give us directions, we crush, crush it. Go to a wedding, go to a club, go if there is not that

they played too much of that in the club. But if you go to a wedding and the white people are on the dance floor, and then if you come back, if you go, if you go plann dance song and then come back with like something a little more like like hip hop or a little more urban like it just clears clears out a Let let's move on Dallas. In the Jets, Big Upset, the Jets get their first win. Um gratulations to the Jets for Sam Donald's back, and obviously that had a lot to do with it with

their with their quarterback of the future. But what I want to talk about is the fourth quarter. And there's a lot of a lot of chatter about this on social media. Fourth quarter, right after the two minute warning, there was six consecutive plays with with fouls, six consecutive plays with penalties, and everyone was like, oh my, you know, six plays. Let him play the whole deal. And and I went back and I watched all six plays, and you can make a case that that the fouls are

there on all six plays. I thought, look, there's there's a there's a defensive past inference on Cashman where where he there's contact with Ezekiel Elliott downfield. It's close, but you can make a case that he's early. And then there's one on Adams on Winton, which was the last of the six that was closed. Looked like there was some contact early. But even you know, Jim Nance and Tony Romo on the broadcast, Jim is saying, you know,

can we have a p A without a penalty? And they show the replay of the Adams contact and on the same play, Leonard Williams buries his head into Dak Prescott's chest and they're like, and Jim Antonio like, whoa, that could have been a foul too. So in the same breath, we're complaining, not complaining, but we're saying, hey, you know, we've got a lot of penalties on these plays, but there could have been one more. And I just

want to talk about. Listen, how important penalties and fouls are to the game and and what what penalties do is fouls basically ensure that the game is played fairly and safely. And if officials are not throwing flags, then

you are allowing teams to gain an unfair advantage. Because if a team goes into a game and says we're gonna we're gonna hold, we're gonna grab, we're gonna make the officials call fouls, and if the officials then say, you know what, we're gonna let him play today, then that team has gained an advantage where the other team is saying, we're gonna play by the rules. We're gonna we're gonna play it, um, you know, to the to the letter of the rule. So you have to throw

flags for penalties. And what's interesting about the numbers, Look, the numbers are up this year. There has been an uptick. We're over eighteen fouls per game. That's total that's accepted

declined in offsetting fouls historically. The number when you talk about this the from nineties seventy five to two thousand five, which is the the that time frame, okay, is the thirty year period, which which basically the the explosive growth of the NFL during that time, becoming America's most popular sport. During that time, penalties were between fifteen and sixteen a game. Okay. In two thousand and six to two thousand thirteen, penalties dropped.

Seven of those eight years, penalties dropped under fifteen a game, and the Competition committe Committee got together and said, we're letting too much go. We're letting too much contact downfield go go, and the game is getting more dangerous and the game is getting unfair to an extent where teams are gaining an advantage. So they put in points of emphasis in two thousand fourteen. I was at the league office at that time. We're gonna emphasize defensive holding, We're

gonna emphasize the illegal contact. We're gonna emphasize illegal hands to the face. When you look at the the overall forty forty five year period from nineteen seventy five, we're still in that fifteen to sixteen penalty range. Think about all the penalties opportunities have been added into the rule books since nineteen seventy all the defenseless player protections that have been added, the player's safety fouls that have been added,

all the rules changes. There are so many more opportunities to throw flags now than there. We're back then, and we're still in that fifteen to six and again uptick this year right now, but we're only through six weeks. Let's see where we are at the end of the year. We're in that fifteen to sixteen penalty range, which is

incredible when you think about it, it's incredible. I think it speaks a lot to coaching as and what we've seen is that officials will will will try to correct behavior, and coaches and players adjust, and that's why you see over time these numbers stay pretty static when you talk

about rules and fouls. One of the most influential and impactful rules changes in the history of the NFL was that was when the league implemented the current version of the illegal contact rule, the illegal contact rule in which is what the current rule is today. Basically said defenders can only contact an eligible receiver within five yards of the line of scrimmage if the quarterbacks will still have

the ball in the pocket. Prior to that, defenders you had, you had defensive backs like mel Blunt and these guys that were athletic and big. They were killing receivers off the line. You couldn't get into your break, you couldn't get into your route. The passing game was stifled. The

passing numbers were down, points were down. That rule illegal contact opened up the passing game, allowed for more freedom and route running, allowed more downfield passing, more points, and you saw the league become as popular as it is today as one of the major contributing factors was that rule and opening up the passing game. And I think what we see today is now with points a game,

we're breaking passing records. You know, every year we feel like, you know, completion percentage, passing yards per game, all of these things, touchdowns per game, those types of things. So penalties are important, and I think we we can't lose sight of that when we talk about you know, oh, there were six players in a row with fouls, Well, maybe there were six fouls on those six plays and and again, and teams will say, and I've talked to

coaches and they've coached this way. We don't think officials will call fouls. They'll call they'll call it on one play, maybe they'll call it to plays in a row. We don't think they'll call it three, four or five five times in a row. So you're you pushing the envelope a little bit, like how much can we get away with it? Exactly? And then that that is how some

coaches look at the game. And if officials don't throw flags, then those coaches gained an advantage, and the coaches that are playing it by the book, by the rules are the ones that are disadvantaged. So the one thing we overlook here, and we talked about this on Sunday morning, is these officials are really, really good and and I don't think people give them enough credit. We don't We don't hear it on our broadcast enough that these guys do a really good job. And you see it on Twitter,

you get text from your friends. These refs are killing us. They're they're not they're they're they're calling it and they're doing it for the right reasons. That he just went over it's I saw a tweet. I don't know who it was, but I thought it was a great tweet when we talked about the quarterbacks and and and and the person said, they said, when I watched the game in the press box, I'm amazed at how a quarterback

can miss a wide open receiver. I'm amazed when I go down on the field and watch it at at eye level, field level, I'm amazed that they ever complete a pass because the speed of the game and when and it's the and I thought about that, and I'm like, you know, what's the same with officiating. When I watch a game on TV, I go, how the heck did they miss that? Right? How did they miss that? After I watched the third replaying slow motion from from the

best angle possible that the official didn't have. And then and then when I've watched games on the field, I how the heck do they get anything right? I'm amazed. And that's where I think we lose sight of it. But you know what, the expectation right now is perfection. We have replay, we have technology. The game is so

fast and there's so much riding on these games. And again, I get it, and and fans want these calls to be correct, but the reality is the NFL officials and officials across all sports are really really good at what they do. So so, Dean, is that a Is that a record? Six in a row? You know, that's a good question. I don't know if that's a record. It's a record this season, I don't think we've had a

game where we've at six people are keeping. I'm sure somebody has it somewhere we could we could find it. I'm sort of quirky research or something like that. We'll have it quick being search raiders at the NFL record most in a game with by one team. That doesn't tell us to, doesn't he trying to set us up to shows how smart he was, But now and then he binged it. But anyway, all right, so let's go to talk talking of quirky research and quirky rules. Fair

catch kick. We had to go all the way to London for the fair catch kick and it was amazing how many people on Twitter today we're tweeting at me like, what the heck just happened? What? What is that it? Please explain the rule to me. I've been watching football my entire life, and I've never seen it. Look, it's an NFL rule. You can't do it in college, you can't do it in high school. It's an NFL rule.

And basically what the rule is is that if you complete a fair catch right so you signal and you complete that fair catch, then you are entitled to a fair catch kick from that spot, and you can elect to take that fair catch kick. And what a fair catch kick is it's just like a field goal attempt, but it looks like a kickoff, so you have you have you have a holder. You can't use a t so the balls on the ground, and you can, like

a field goal attempt, you can have a holder. All the kicking team players are on the yard line that the ball was caught, so that's their restraining yacht line. Then ten yards from them is the defense return team. They're all on their restraining line. Same formation restrictions in terms of in terms of similar to a kickoff in terms of that restraining line. And you can kick the ball and if it goes through the uprights, you get three points. The clock starts once the ball is kicked.

The ball can be returned just like a missed field goal, even a punt, you can return it for a touchdown. And if you miss it and there's time remaining on the clock and it's no good and it's not touched by the defense in the field of play, then it comes all the way back to the spot of the kick and the defense gets the ball there. So you don't see this like what twelve minutes to go in

the second quarter. You're not gonna give up your possession and attempt, you know, because you want you think it's cool, You're gonna do it at the end of the half, which is what Carolina did today, Carolina Tampa in London and uh. And so it worked out because we know, like the the European fans love the kicking game. So it was just perfect for this fair catch kick to happen in London. And it was no good. It was a sixty yard attempt. It was had the distance, but

it looked think it was wide wide wide, right. Um. The great thing about this is you don't have anyone like rushing to try to block it exactly exactly. You you pretty much have a free go. Um. They can't you know, the defense can't move from there with straining the line until the ball is kicked, and so you'd have to kick it pretty low for for them to have an opportunity to block it. Do you think every coach in the league knows that rule? I think they do.

You know, I used to get astial teams coaches are are a very unique bunch, and they know. Of all the coaches, I've always said, and you go back and you look at the head coaches that that I've dealt with, usually the ones that have special teams backgrounds are are

most in tune with the rules. And so special teams because the special teams coaches are coaching all side, they're they're coaching both offense and defense, and and obviously special teams in terms of you know what's happening, they have to they have to teach, you know, blocking, they have to teach you know, getting off blocks, all those things, rushing kicks, that type of thing, and so they're very,

very in tune with the rules. So I would guarantee every special teams coach, and I would imagine every head coach unless they just came from college, would would would be pretty in tune with this rule. But the thing is, you know, you do a little research about this. The last time it happened in the NFL was two thousand thirteen and it was the forty Niners and the St. Louis Rams, the Rams who have um since moved to l A And it was Phil Dawson and it was

a missed attempt. The last made kid, It was nineteen seventies six and it was Ray Worshing. Um, and I'm just doing a little looking it up here. Ray Worshing was the last successful kick. It was a forty five yarder, so that must have been a pretty bad punt. And it was a forty five yard or at the end of the first half. It put the Charges up twenty seven to ten. And that is the the the last successful NFL free kick. And then this is fun fun

fact um. A couple of Paul Paul Hornick attempted ah and he actually made one in nineteen sixty four, Um, Green Band, Chicago, fifty two yard or at the end of the first half. But the very first one on record, Travis, when was it and who attempted? Well, I watched you can go on at NFL on Fox on Twitter and you can watch the video Dean did today explaining this. So I I cheated a little bit I I am the teacher's pet here I I saw it his ninety one and your friend Curly Lambo can I I nicknamed

kicked the Lambeau leg nice the Lambeau legs. And now in there the company man right, So he so let Curly Lambeau obviously known for Lambeau Field, now he's known as the the inventor of the fair catch kick shifting gears a little bit. Two kicks. I do want to

talk about this. I think this is an important topic and I think the league is going to have to really keep an eye on this on side kicks, and we talk a little bit about the changes to the kickoff and and and now where you have to have you have to have all of your kicking team players within the yard of the restraining line. You have to have both feet on the ground until the ball is kicked and there's no run up. It has made the

onside kick very, very difficult to to complete successfully. Last year eight percent on expected on side kick eight percent um act of successful, and that compared to thirteen just over thirteen percent historically this year. Okay, and you tell me what percentage of expected on side kicks have been successful this year to date. Well, the fact that you're bringing it up, I'm gonna guess it's less than that. Eight. I'm gonna say five, Joe, I don't think I've seen

one can successfully done. I'd say two. Maybe I missed one. So right now to date we are over seventeen on on side kicks, so zero percent, zero percent of successful onside kicks and and on side kicks are very important to the game because we've alway, we've talked about marginal victory and the NFL wants close games. Nobody wants to look the games forty two to nothing. People are tuning out and the people are leaving the stadium. Nobody wants

to watch that game. The onside kick allows the team that's down multiple scores in the fourth quarter to come back, even without time outs. It allows you to come back. And if you don't have a play that has any any realistic chance of being successful, you have now taken that away. And now we're gonna have games that that are no longer one possession games are no longer exciting at the end. So I think the league has to look at this and uh and really do something, really

do something, um potentially drastic in the off season. Do you think you see the a F rule where you can go to like a fourth and fifteen or something. It's it's possible, you know, the the the a F, the Alliance of American Football, the ill fated um Professional League that in the spring last spring um I had a rule that it was basically a fourth and twelve from the twenty eight yard line, so you had to

get a first down. And why they went fourth and twelve because fourth and twelve is a similar success rate to converting. That was similar to where the onset kick was in the NFL. And uh and so you want it to be you don't want an easy play. Obviously, you don't want it to be fifty percent, but you don't want it to be you know, two percent. You want something that has a realistic chance or at least

you know, the famous Jim carryline. You're you're saying, there's a chance that might be something in the league has discussed that, the Competition Committee has discussed that in the past. I don't know, you know, there are a lot of people that feel like that is that that is gimmicky and it's going away from you know, the tradition and the and the normal you know, kicking game that special

team's aspect. But look if this, if if we're at zero percent for two thousand nineteen at the end of the year, I think the league is gonna is gonna look at doing something. I don't know what yet, but I think zero percent is a an alarming number. It's only one year. You never want to again, small sample size, but zero percent would not be good. There was one in the Dallas game and they bounce off the guy's chest, then he bobbled it trying to pick it up, and

the Cowboys still didn't get there. I don't know what that was. If it's due to where they have to line up. And it's a great question because you know, we we were talking about that play and if they had it even the five yard run up, are they are they art or two closer? And and does that Dallas player have the ability, you know, the Jet player have the ability to to pull that ball back in um versus you know, having a couple of kicking team players there and being able to was the reason for

the change. Player safety, yeah, I mean the region. The reason was player safety. They you know, they didn't like you know, used to be you could run up, you could run up you wanted. I mean that that play, that onside kick play when I first started at the NFL was brutal, brutal and that was And and you talk to people that played the game and coach the game, you the most the bravest guys on the team were

the guys on the hands team. And nobody wanted to go and play that and and be on that hands team because you were, in essence sitting there you had eleven ten minuster kicker. You know, um guys with a full head of steam basically just trying to clear you out to get their football exactly, braveheart. When when the English are coming down with the heavy horse and like, well you got no heavy arts, No army has never one in three years, and Mel Gibson's like, I wrote

the script, watch what happens. We're gonna have long spears. Some men are longer than others. But anyway, okay, get me on a tangent, ladies and gentlemen. That was not scripted, all right. We had the conversation a couple of days on side script on side, script on side kick. Potentially something to look for in the in the future. Let's let's go to a break and when we come back and we're gonna talk a little college football. I would have some fun ast other things too. Hell yeah, welcome back,

good call, let's talk a little college football. You know, we're we're mainly an NFL show, but I think there was some interesting stuff in college football this past weekend and I want to talk about it. The head scratcher, the health scratcher. Head Scratcher called the weak Texas Tech Baylor. What a game, really exciting game this year. They're playing a little defense in the Big twelve, which which I like.

And so the games in overtime, first possession of overtime, Baylor has the ball and uh, and we have a snap. The ball is on the ground. Texas Tech recovers, but the officials come in, throw a flag, kill the play and rule illegal snap and uh. And so it's interesting. The rule basically says, a legal snap is when the center takes the ball and in one continuous motion, okay, basically moves that ball in one continuous motion and it

leaves his hand in that motion. And so typically when you see an illegal snap, it's like a it's a double clutch. They start the snap and stop it, or they snap it and leave it up against their their backside. But here this was not an illegal snap. This was one continuous motion. The ball left his hands. I don't know if he thought the quarterback was under center um, but anyway, ball came loose. Should have been text ball were an overtime first possession, Tech gets the ball. Look,

we don't know what would have happened. Maybe they fumble on the next play, but I think they're there. Their odds of winning that game go way up when if they get that football in that situation. The Big twelve Texas Tech athletic director Kirby Hokutt had had did confirm that the Big twelve admitted the mistake, and uh, you know, we don't know, we don't know what the ramifications are gonna be from from an officiating perspective, but but it

was the incorrect call. Then the other the other player I want to talk about is USC Notre Dame. Really, I mean this is this was a good game, went down to the end. The Notre Dame is up thirty seven. USC just scores, They're gonna go for the onside kick. You know what we were talking about with the the NFL rule and uh, but Notre Dame had had eleven players on the field, but there was a twelfth person on the field when the ball was kicked, and that

was head coach Brian Kelly. And this, to me, this is a problem more so in college football than it is in the NFL. And the NFL has done things to catail this. But in college football, the coaches are are on the field and it's become a problem. And and and the n c A has has made it a point of emphasis. They want officials to flag these coaches. But just like any other point of emphasis, it happens, and then it tends we tend to get lax on it.

But Brian Kelly is on the field motioning for his players to move over, to shift over to the direction of the kick, and the ball is kicked and he's he's almost to the numbers. And so you wonder, you know, do do USC players who can see him, are they

are they reacting? Do they stop? To me? At the very minimum, I think if the officials recognize that they kill it and and we basically redo it, I don't I don't think we penalize them, you know, fifteen yards or I mean that that you know, we give sideline warnings. Officials give sideline warnings in college, but you know, you can't be on the field during the play. And I know, and and sometimes look at the emotion. And that's why

they have those get back coaches. And we see NFL coaches with guys that are responsible for keeping the head coach off the field because the head coach sometimes they don't even realize. And I'm sure coach Kelly didn't even realize how far out on the field he was. He at the moment, but great Asia song, but he can't be out on the field. And I think in a very minimum, you gotta shut it down, redo it and

uh and make sure coaches off the field. But that was definitely something and and and look, when I was at the NFL, it was a it was a legitimate concern with the coaches coming from college and they're used to being able to be out on the field their staffs and now they're bringing their staffs and these coaches from college to NFL, and the NFL competition community was

very was very adamant. And the direction to me when I was at the league office was we want the officials to make sure the coaches stay on the sideline. We don't we don't even want them huddling up with their players during breaks too far out onto the field. Let's keep it as close to the sideline as possible. And uh and I think that's something that uh that the the n c A needs to continue to look

at and make sure that that doesn't happen again. I just want to throw I'm an audio guy, but if they need to keep to keep the coaches back, just put a good word and I'll hold him back. I'll make sure everyone's you're you're I'm available for a full time gig. Well, all right, during he's a he's a kind of a master of He's a he's a he's yeah, he's well, what's that that phrase I'm looking for, Like he's jack jack of all trades, but he's a master

of none. But anyway, Um, that's college football. Let's shift gears and now we're gonna go into the segment that we have titled Inside the Brain of Blandino. But before we do that, I got another tweet that I want to share with the world, or however many listeners we have, who who who tweeted on on Sunday, and there was a little bit of a little bit of a miscommunication, there was. But I'm gonna have to bust you on this one because this goes against one of your rules

of the show with no religions. But I feel like this is not We're not getting really into it's a religious figure. It's a religious it's a religious figure, but it's not about like any religious tweeted Pope Francis. Just just that statement alone. Pope Francis tweeted, could you imagine

twenty years ago? So the Pope was I was on the Pope's Twitter account, and uh, and I know he retweeted that, he retweeted, he read tweeted the French bulldog that looked like Chucky, you know, that was running around with the It was so funny. The Pope has since the humor. But ahead, Travis, what was the tweet today? We give thanks to the Lord for hashtag new Saints. They walked by faith and now we invoke their intercession.

So there were new So the Pope obviously was talking about saints in like the Mother Teresa mold and but with the hashtag and so and I just I even googled New Saints today, and it comes up with the New Orleans Saints, their record and their win today with and then and then you go to the second. The second thing on Google is Pope frances canonizes five New Saints,

including John Henry Newman. So so when Pope Francis, and I know the Pope is running his own Twitter accounts, so when he when he did hashtag Saints, it came up the New Orleans Saints, and you even have the Florida lead and and the whole thing. So so to me, I want to see the video of somebody explaining the Pope Francis. Pope, this is Pope. You're never gonna believe this. You're never gonna believe what happened. You know the tweet you sent about the New Saints. Well, there's this American

football team that's also called the Saints. There Drew Brees, the quarterback, Sean Payton's anyway, I want to be there for that. But I thought that was hilarious. But let's get inside the brain of Blendino. So if you haven't heard this before, I take notes on my phone. I used to do stand up comedy. If something strikes me as funny or interesting, I put it in my phone. I've got I don't know, Joe, thousands and thousands of

entries over the last however many years. And what Joe does is Joe is now going he likes reads them in his spare time. But he's just gonna scroll down real quick, pick one, and then I have to explain it. I love this one so much I would already have done it. And I'm so excited. Okay, what do you got? What do you got? And this is complete random Every fourteen minutes someone finds love on e Harmony. There ain't

that many happy people in the world, so exactly. So my point is, so i was watching the e Harmony commercials and I'm glad you came up with the harmony because if you've watched, if you've noticed the shift in

the E Harmony advertising campaigns. E Harmony used to have the guy that used to come on, the guy that started it, the older guy and the old gray air guy with glasses, and he would say he E Harmony was kind of like the antithesis of like the others, like where where everything was like we're showing all these attractive people, and you can meet these attractive people if you come to our dating website. So the Harmony was like, look,

looks aren't important. We try to match you up with your perfect mate based on you know, like common interests, music, all these things. And so it was it was less about looks and more about like actual can action. If you see an e Harmony commercial today, everyone is good looking. They still they still push the whole We're gonna connect you with your soul mate, but everyone is good looking. And so they've realized that basically attractive people sell product,

they sell websites, all those things. Okay, anyway, thank you, I know sex sells. Anyway, Here's the thing, like I said, every four Joe, what did I say, ever someone finds happiness? And I walk around every day and I'm in southern California with the weather is amazing, and all I see is piste off people. Nobody is on the armony apparently, because every fourteen minutes they are not becoming happy, They're

becoming more frustrated and more angry and uh. And so that's that's the thought of the day that I'm y today, join the harmony. You're you're single, you're out there, you're out there. Let's go to the d M of the week, and uh and this was a this was someone that d mned me and it's actually a positive DM and and I do get one in a hundred are positive. I could I could go to the get, I could go to the m or like getting an on site kick in the NFL. It is exactly Joe that was.

That was solid right there. That may turn it up there there you go, audio guy. Okay, so it was. It was basically on all paraphrase this. Thank you for agreeing that Texas Tech fumble call was BS. It gives me a slight glimmer of happiness knowing your excellent mind agreed with that crappy call as we were all pissed about it. Genuinely, feel feels like a feel like that's a season changing call. Keep staying saucy Dean and then

and then a second and then a second a second message. Also, keep this between you and I, but I think you're much better and cuter than Mike Pereira. So this I will read the when I'm when when I'm get to minute fifteen and I'm still not happy, I will pull that up and I will read that. It's it's like a it's like a it's it's a little glimmer of hope and a sea of crap that that is my Twitter page and uh and that thank you unknown fan. I'm not I will thank you for the d M

of the week. Guys. That's the show. A lot of stuff to talk about, obviously it was. It was a lot of fun. I feel like we're we're, you know, hitting our stride a little bit. I do spend way too much time over three days to finally get I think we're I think we're I think we're in harmony. I think we're we're e harmony. By the way. That's the show. Good Calls with Dean Blandino. Make sure you check in next week and thanks for listening. M Yeah. Good Calls with Dean Blandino is a production of I

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